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itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Font problems in kde6

Hello all,
I have two issues in kde6 (wayland)
1) The fonts seem to be blur in some cases even I change the resolution of the screen
2) The small arrows of the task bar menu disappear when I increase the font size.

Regards

swarfendor437

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Registered: 2024-11-06

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Re: Font problems in kde6

Just a comment here. I find Wayland is still new compared to Xorg or even the newer X-Libre. Is it essential that you use Wayland? Also if you have an nvidia card, xorg plays better.
Latly I have great reservations about Plasma 6.x.x as nice Tiled Menus go back to the method of setting tiles by having to mess with x and y axis settings in the tiled area. Plasma 5.27 offers the best experience - why can't KDE just leave a good working desktop alone?

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itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Re: Font problems in kde6

Just a comment here. I find Wayland is still new compared to Xorg or even the newer X-Libre. Is it essential that you use Wayland? Also if you have an nvidia card, xorg plays better.
Latly I have great reservations about Plasma 6.x.x as nice Tiled Menus go back to the method of setting tiles by having to mess with x and y axis settings in the tiled area. Plasma 5.27 offers the best experience - why can't KDE just leave a good working desktop alone?

I agree with you 100%! My system works perfectly with Xorg and the Plasma 5.27 was by far the best Window Manager. The problem with the fonts is that if I switch to X11 - kde6 then the system becomes very slow!

q4osteam

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Re: Font problems in kde6

We can confirm the OP issues however they are not Q4OS native, but Debian/Plasma upstream.

itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Re: Font problems in kde6

We can confirm the OP issues however they are not Q4OS native, but Debian/Plasma upstream.

Yes, q4os is by far the faster debian based system these days, but the combination of Wayland and Kde6 has many problems..

q4osteam

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Re: Font problems in kde6

You can still use Q4OS6/KDE6 X11 session, it's installed by default in Q4OS. You only need to switch to X11 session on the login screen.

itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Re: Font problems in kde6

You can still use Q4OS6/KDE6 X11 session, it's installed by default in Q4OS. You only need to switch to X11 session on the login screen.

I will try it later and I will send screenshots from the font handling in my system.

Thank you

itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Re: Font problems in kde6

Please see https://imgur.com/a/11QOQiA

The font rendering issue is solved now but I had to install manually the nvidia drivers and select the X11 option
The drivers were downloaded using this tool: https://github.com/devleonardoamaral/de … -installer

regards

Last edited by itsoulos (2026-01-11 21:56)

itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Re: Font problems in kde6

An this is a similar screenshot with wayland: https://imgur.com/a/jMCZWTO

I think that the fonts are a bit blur for me